Aduro - A New Beginning
Day 1

Met exco at 0730 hours at SP room. helped to make some final touches, then rushed off to set up audio equipment at 0800 hours at lt28/29 foyer. OGLs were already there doing some last-minute reading up.

freshies were very punctual. first person came at 0830, a sweet gal by the name of shi yun. then more and more people came, and everything started to become messy.

Registration - 5/10
Icebreakers - 5/10

Registration was very messy. By right we were supposed to do it systematically, ie check whether money was paid, give fun pack, give SP card (with the pseudonym and the hp no of the SP on it).

Music turned out to be very unnecessary. Some groups who were far away wanted louder music, whereas groups who were nearer to the speakers found it irritating. And i can't even play music during games, or forfeits as there was no time to decide and find the appropriate tracks.
The microphones turned out to be quite unnecessary too.

Sequence of events - there was considerable delay due to the painting of the banner (i had only given them 30 min, instead they took an hour). I should have taken a more proactive stance in this item, rather than throw it completely to the OGLs and Pearlyn. Event starting time was very miscommunicated; i wanted to rush them towards the briefings but the OGs were still doing stuff.

Emcee - junice didn't know what to say for some parts due to the uncertain sequence of events, but i thought she still put up a brave performance.

Icebreakers part was very impromptu; even sometimes i didn't know what was going on, nor what was going to happen next. But the OGLs more or less saved the show.

I was supposed to brief them for the talentime event as no one else knows whats going on. I found out that i don't make a very good emcee, nor can i explain things very well.

We ran into problems finding the karaoke version for some of the songs requested by the OGs for the song item.

Food Hunt - 6/10

According to feedback, i think the freshies were quite neutral to this game. It doesn't do justice to Hui Lin, who took about 2 serious weeks to plan for it.

I guess with any game that spends most of the time of travel, it would be rather boring, running even into dead space during train/bus rides. Can't blame them for this.

Was supposed to go to Old Airport Road, but then i realised that i didn't print the lyrics for the song item! what a klutz i am. so told alvin to cover for me and then sped off to tampines library, where i copied the lyrics from my laptop. BY HAND. then zapped 11 copies of it.

rushed back to the chalet around 5:30 pm. settled down a little, and checked the items for the next event - Night Game 1.

Night Game 1: Catch Me If You Can - 9/10

This is probably one of the few items in the camp that i can safely raise my head high about it.

Basically, it is a treasure-hunt-cum-catching game. Freshies get caught and get sprayed with water, flour, chilli sauce, etc.

I think the seniors had more fun than the freshies. The freshies weren't very eager on getting sprayed with the condiments, and running around for their lives.

In the end, they all got paranoid and stayed inside the safe zones. Even during times of "non-curfew", where seniors are not allowed to catch them. Haha. *shakes head*

After this, we gave them some time to settle in their chalets. I and xuanwei popped over to each chalet with our laptops and my mp3 player and we discussed how to go about the song item for talentime. some groups were quite enthusiastic about it, discussing openly (we can see through the windows) about it, with faint melodies wafting from the chalets; some just wanted to watch tv.

Went back to chalet. Had a short debrief, then slept at about 3am.